National Football League

Chip Kelly making local stores nervous about jersey ordering

Published Apr. 4, 2015 2:19 p.m. ET

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By Rachel Wold

If you are wearing a green Philadelphia Eagles jersey with the name Jeremy Maclin, LeSean McCoy or Nick Foles on it, you’ve got an outdated wardrobe.

Due to all the radical changes that head coach Chip Kelly has made over the last month, he is actually making nearby stores apprehensive to order new supplies of team jerseys.

In an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News, the manager at Lids Locker Room, located in Cherry Hill, N.J., admitted he is concerned when it comes to stocking up on Eagles’ jerseys.

I don’t know what Chip Kelly is doing. So, yeah, I’m a little nervous getting anything in here just yet.

Additionally, a local Sports Authority employee, Tina Lopez, also reported her boss has not ordered any bulk shipments yet

Until we’re sure the guys who Chip brought in today are the same ones he will put on the field at summer’s end.

Who could blame these businesses? At the prices that NFL player jerseys cost, do you really want to be investing in Sam Bradford when you hear the news he has been shipped to the Tennessee Titans? How about putting on your new DeMarco Murray jersey only to find out that Kelly went bananas crazy and traded him to the Buffalo Bills to get LeSean McCoy back?

Of course these are far-fetched scenarios—well perhaps not with Bradford—but you get the picture.

Most of the general public probably agree that these vendors have every right to be terrified about ordering a big stock of any Eagles player’s jersey at this point in time. When will it be safe for us to purchase an Eagles’ jersey? Perhaps not until September 10—the date of the official start of the NFL season.

Even that might be an ambitious guess.

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